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The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Drabblecast 339 – Trifecta XXVIII: Offbeat Afterlife

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Fiction

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The ghost in my attic is Margaret, but she lets me call her Margie. She was seventy-six years old when she died, and now that she’s a ghost she sits in her rocking chair day and night, holding a tiny baby in her arms. The baby rarely moves and almost never cries. His name is […]

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Hello and welcome to the travel cast episode 39. The travel cast is a weekly

0:18.6

audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

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I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

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This week we bring you another travel cast Trifectaa Special, Trifecta Special number 28 actually.

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In Trifecta Specials we bring you three different flash stories by three different authors,

0:41.0

but all based around a similar theme. The theme of Trifecta Special

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Number 28, Offbeat Afterlife. Weirdness from Beyond the Grave. Oh, you mean ghost stories, you might say. Nay, my friend, nay indeed. Well, okay, yeah,

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ghost stories, but not the kinds of things that probably first come to mind when you hear the term

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ghost stories.

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Ain't nobody making pottery up in here this week.

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Nobody taking you to visit Christmas past,

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nobody chasing Pac-Man around a series of endless

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labyrinths, nobody watching you poop from the corner of your bathroom completely invisible,

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paranormal activity.

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And certainly nobody volunteering at the local neighborhood after school center

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to help a group of young inner city kids along with the craft of writing.

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We don't know where he came from.

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He just showed up one night.

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Fire!

1:36.0

You have to promise never to tell anybody about a ghostwriter.

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Remember that show, Ghost Rider?

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He's a ghost and he writes to us.

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